a documentary film about the feat of Russian polar explorers led by astronomer and geodesist Alexander Vasiliev. At the end of the 19th century, a Russian expedition managed to make measurements on the Svalbard archipelago, which made it possible to establish the exact shape of the planet. The price of the discovery was high - scientists spent the winter in the archipelago, survived the polar night, snow storms, coped with faulty equipment, polar bears and frost. The film opens a little-known page in the development of the Arctic and a place where the romance of discovery, untouched nature and great achievements are combined - Svalbard
